Just something I'd like to discuss with everyone.

We are (were) using Crystal Reports XI to design our reports from our VB.Net application. We used the Crystal Reports viewer to display the reports.

After an install of CR XI Release 2 the CR became unstable - it was trying to reinstall itself all the time etc - i did write a post about that earlier.

Anyway, long story short, I decided to scrap CR and re-do all the reports using Excel. There is a whole lot of extra coding involved and setting up of the Excel templates but at the end of the day they seem to run quicker than CR reports. Also the overall size of my project EXE and installer package is a whole lot smaller without CR.

Quite frankly i cant see a downside to using Excel over CR and i was just wondering if i missed something?

Any thoughts/comments? Has anyone else done something similar?